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Title: A difficult one hope this pic is better
Post by: dellaraymond on Wednesday 22 June 11 12:56 BST (UK)

Can anyone help me out here with this one,I would like to have a photo of my mum on her own but this is the only half decent picture of her that i have,she is the lady who has on the v neck dress with her hand across her tummy, the sixth one in from the man on the left with the stick on back row

Title: Re: A difficult one
Post by: alan m on Wednesday 22 June 11 13:35 BST (UK)

hope i have your mum its best i can do
Alan

Title: Re: A difficult one
Post by: dellaraymond on Wednesday 22 June 11 13:43 BST (UK)

So sorry Alan i should have made myself more clear its the lady on the back row,good photo anyway that is my aunt!
Della

Title: Re: A difficult one
Post by: Niksmum on Wednesday 22 June 11 13:59 BST (UK)

This really needs to be rescanned at a much higher resolution.
This is a very low 72 dpi and should be  at least 300dpi to get a good result

Irene

Title: Re: A difficult one
Post by: tapsfoot on Wednesday 22 June 11 15:20 BST (UK)

 :)

Title: Re: A difficult one
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 22 June 11 15:35 BST (UK)

Hi

I had a try with some freebee enlarging software and then Photoshop.  Not too good, I'm afraid.

I think that it would be best if you can do what Irene suggests and rescan at as high a resolution as you can but with no compression. Details are at the top of the board.

gnu

Title: Re: A difficult one
Post by: That_Daft_Laddie on Wednesday 22 June 11 15:38 BST (UK)

Not much to work with there unfortunately.
As Niksmum says, if you can have the photo scanned at 300 dots per inch, (or higher) you will have an increased chance of a usable result.

To keep the scanned image file size down try to scan just the area around your mum. We would be cutting the rest off anyway.

Here's a rough cut for now.

Gordon

Title: Re: A difficult one
Post by: dellaraymond on Wednesday 22 June 11 17:31 BST (UK)

Thanks everyone i will have a go at scanning it but i don't hold out much hope as i am no good at all that stuff,many thanks again for your efforts.
Della

Title: Re: A difficult one hope this pic is better
Post by: Niksmum on Monday 27 June 11 16:09 BST (UK)

I am sorry to say that this has also been rescanned at 72dpi  :(
 
You need to adjust your scanner properties to 300dpi

Irene

Title: Re: A difficult one hope this pic is better
Post by: dellaraymond on Tuesday 28 June 11 11:56 BST (UK)

Hi Irene
Hope this one works I set the printer to 300 and scanned it but it was to easy !
 i have probably got it wrong again.
Della

Title: Re: A difficult one hope this pic is better
Post by: Niksmum on Tuesday 28 June 11 12:20 BST (UK)

another try

Irene

Title: Re: A difficult one hope this pic is better
Post by: dellaraymond on Wednesday 29 June 11 13:27 BST (UK)

Many Thanks Irene you done a wonderfull job,very clever indeed.
Della